Adapting Macbeth in a Lusophone context: The challenges of intercultural performance
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| author | Francesca Rayner |
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| contents | Adapting Macbeth in a Lusophone context: The challenges of intercultural performance Francesca Rayner Lengua y Literatura Macbeth Lusophone adaptation Shakespeare performance This article analyses the intercultural performance of Tite Prayersof Mansata, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth to the WestAfrican context of Guinea-Bissau. After a critical exploration ofcontemporary intercultural theory, it charts the relationshipbetween the Shakespearean text and this adaptation, befareexploring particular questions raised by the circulation of theperformance within different Portuguese-speaking contexts. Itargues that such performances can represent a potent social andpolitical intervention in contemporary configurations of powerwithin a Portuguese-speaking cornmunity of nations bycombining concerns with local specificity and wider concernswith a post-colonial presento. 2015 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333543052007 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.25 |
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| spellingShingle | Adapting Macbeth in a Lusophone context: The challenges of intercultural performance Francesca Rayner Lengua y Literatura Macbeth Lusophone adaptation Shakespeare performance Adapting Macbeth in a Lusophone context: The challenges of intercultural performance Francesca Rayner Lengua y Literatura Macbeth Lusophone adaptation Shakespeare performance This article analyses the intercultural performance of Tite Prayersof Mansata, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth to the WestAfrican context of Guinea-Bissau. After a critical exploration ofcontemporary intercultural theory, it charts the relationshipbetween the Shakespearean text and this adaptation, befareexploring particular questions raised by the circulation of theperformance within different Portuguese-speaking contexts. Itargues that such performances can represent a potent social andpolitical intervention in contemporary configurations of powerwithin a Portuguese-speaking cornmunity of nations bycombining concerns with local specificity and wider concernswith a post-colonial presento. 2015 artículo científico 1135-7789 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333543052007 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3335 SEDERI Yearbook application/pdf Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies SEDERI Yearbook (España) Num.25 |
| title | Adapting Macbeth in a Lusophone context: The challenges of intercultural performance |
| topic | Lengua y Literatura Macbeth Lusophone adaptation Shakespeare performance |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=333543052007 |